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COLUMBID JC. 
Genus PHAPS Selby. 
Phaps Selby, Naturalists’ Library, Pigeons, p. 194, May 1835. Type 
(by original designation) : Columba chalcoptera Latham. 
Phaps chalcoptera (Latham). 
Distr .—Australia generally. 
Phaps chalcoptera chalcoptera (Latham). (21-526.) 
Columba chalcoptera Latham, Index Ornith. vol. ii. p. 604, before 
Dec. 9th, 1790: Sydney, New South Wales. (Pig. Gould, Austr. v. 
pi. 64.) 
Distr .—South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tas¬ 
mania, and South Australia. 
Phaps chalcoptera consobrina Mathews. 
Phaps chalcoptera consobrina Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 188, 
Jan. 31st, 1912; Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. (Fig. 
Math. pi. 35.) 
Phaps chalcoptera .riordani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 28, Apr. 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island. 
Distr .—Northern Australia. 
Phaps chalcoptera murchisoni Mathews. 
Phaps chalcoptera murchisoni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 188, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: East Murchison, Mid-West Australia. 
Distr .—South-West and Mid-West Australia. 
Genus COSMOPELIA Sundevall. 
Cosmovclia Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent. pt. ii. p. 100, 
before June 12th, 1873. Type (by original designation) : Columba 
elegans Temminck. 
Cosmopelia elegans (Temminck). 
Distr. —Eastern and Southern Australia and Tasmania. 
Cosmopelia elegans elegans (Temminck). (21-527.) 
Columba elegans Temminck, Les Pigeons, vol. ii. p. 56, pi. 22, 1810: 
South Tasmania. (Fig. Gould, Austr. v. pi. 65.) 
Columba laicsonii Wagler, Syst. Av., Columba , sp. 58, p. 249, before Oct. 1827 : 
as synonym of elegans , ex Siebor, Isis, 1825, Heft i., Beylage No. 1, nude name. 
Diet r .— T asm a n i a . 
Cosmopelia elegans neglecta (Mathews). 
Phaps elegans neglecta Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 188, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Long Bay, New South Wales. (Fig. Math. pi. 30.) 
Phaps elegans affinis Mathews, ib.: Emu WoUs, South Australia (interior). 
Distr. —New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, South- 
West Australia. 
